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**trubreTab** · 06-22-2012, 09:18 PM

Hello Element,

If you have a motor car that keeps breaking down, i.e., constantly exhibits impermanence in its functioning, is that motor car satisfactory or unsatisfactory?

If you have a wife or husband that keep being unfaithful to you, i.e., constantly exhibits impermanence in their faithfulness, is your wife or husband satisfactory or unsatisfactory?

You can complain about things when they are yours, when you own them, your example is very clear (a car, a partner). To own something, there should be an owner, right?

Do we own life? are we in a postion to say how things should be? or is it our ignorance and arrogance that is giving us that false impression that "we can and we should control things".

In other words, our search for a permenant experience has to be the outcome of a strong view of a permenant self, and it has created the unsatisfactoriness you have mentioned in your post.

06-22-2012, 09:18 PM	#40
trubreTab Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 520 Senior Member	Hello Element, If you have a motor car that keeps breaking down, i.e., constantly exhibits impermanence in its functioning, is that motor car satisfactory or unsatisfactory? If you have a wife or husband that keep being unfaithful to you, i.e., constantly exhibits impermanence in their faithfulness, is your wife or husband satisfactory or unsatisfactory? You can complain about things when they are yours, when you own them, your example is very clear (a car, a partner). To own something, there should be an owner, right? Do we own life? are we in a postion to say how things should be? or is it our ignorance and arrogance that is giving us that false impression that "we can and we should control things". In other words, our search for a permenant experience has to be the outcome of a strong view of a permenant self, and it has created the unsatisfactoriness you have mentioned in your post.
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